Posts Tagged: Esther Purim
How to Fight the Culture Wars
JNS.org - To anyone not living or hiding under a rock, the culture war rages all too loudly and visibly around us. In that war,...
How Purim Can Help Us Navigate Today’s Political Reality
The social divide in America is violently escalating. The whirlwind of accusations between the political Left and Right continues to spiral downwards. We seem to be...
Feminist Perspectives on Purim
JNS.org - In the Book of Esther, Mordechai encourages his niece to use her influence with King Ahasuerus. For if you remain silent at this time, relief...
A Purim Guide for the Perplexed, 2016
Purim’s historical background: The 586 BCE destruction of the First Temple (on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount) by the Babylonian Emperor, Nebuchadnezzar, triggered a wave of Jewish emigration...
Reflecting on Purim — Then and Now
There is a trend in certain quarters to look at the story of Purim as one of Jewish aggression -- the murder of innocent Persian non-Jews, and...
Esther Teaches Us Never to Judge a Jew By His — or — Her Appearance
So where do gutsy, brave, Jewish women who are willing to lay down their lives for their people, and do things that are frequently unpopular...
Memory and the True Message of the Book of Esther
One of the most frightening aspects of old age is the potential onset of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Active, successful people slowly descend into a...
